Thread: My 2010 Resolution for myself, and all of you. (Just read this please.)

My new year resolution is HAVE A BETTER YEAR! 2009 is gone forever, 2010 things will finally go right for me.

I'm not talking about controversial environmental issues, or economic. I am beginning to no longer care for any of those topics. I'm beginning to wake up and recognize that they are irrelevant.

>environmental issues
>irrelevant

You make me sad here, OP. <:U
What about everyone who comes after us? How's that irrelevant?

But, yah, spread altruism, spread the love. But also, just go and do things. Work toward things you thought you'd always get around to doing but haven't. This is especially important for all you on-the-cusp teens. Get in the habit now, of trying new things, of retaining spontaneity (and separating it from conditioned impulse).

I think saying environmental issues are irrelevant is a little irresponsible.

It'll be a bit hard to spread the love if you're starving, or in the middle of an oil war.

Originally Posted by Xei

I think saying environmental issues are irrelevant is a little irresponsible.

It'll be a bit hard to spread the love if you're starving, or in the middle of an oil war.

Well that's not really the point. I think most of us are in agreement that its a big issue. But sitting in front of the computer trying to convince some guy that you're right about it isn't going to help anything. Going out into the world with authenticity and the intention to change things will.

Well, I was responding to what the OP said.

This seems too hard...

Well I guess that once again, this is another failed attempt at trying to be positive at DV. Idunno what I was thinking. Everyone here seems to see right through what I was trying to do, and instead focus on one minute detail, which I admit was poorly phrased, but had literally nothing to do with the rest of the post. But that's what the topic shifts to, because it's controversial. I guess I had a brief moment of stupidity. My bad.

/facepalm.

Originally Posted by Xei

I think saying environmental issues are irrelevant is a little irresponsible.

It'll be a bit hard to spread the love if you're starving, or in the middle of an oil war.

Originally Posted by Abra

>environmental issues
>irrelevant

You make me sad here, OP. <:U
What about everyone who comes after us? How's that irrelevant?

After this whole post about spreading love and committing random acts of kindness and to find yourself, that's all that anyone can focus on. Amazing. Truly amazing.

That was a poorly phrased statement on my part, and I didn't intend for it to come accross as though I am indifferent to the condition of the world. In California, I'm a huge supporter of becoming pro-active to protect the environment, and I regularly speak up about all of the terrible shit we do to the planet, so I promise, I don't need a lecture. What I meant was that by choosing to focus on how "bad" we are for doing this, we are not solving anything. We need to look at everything from a positive perspective, and then we'll be able to start changing things. The way we have been approaching it now won't change anything, and thus it's irrelevant.

Originally Posted by Carousoul

This all seems obvious.

If you didn't do this before or didn't reecognise this is what you should be living like, I can't help but wonder what you did think you should be living like.

I didn't think I "should" be doing anything in particular. Most people aren't like this, so I don't understand where your surprise that I wasn't either comes from. Not to mention, if it were obvious, the world wouldn't be as fucked up as it is now. So it shouldn't come to a surprise to you that not everyone is as enlightened as you evidently are.

Maybe I wasn't like this before, and maybe I'm still not, because of how people seem to still completely ignore the intention behind something like this, and zero in on an unrelated controversial statement just for the sake of argument, but I digress.

Originally Posted by Rainman

I too am very very guilty of clinging to my ideas, as if they were a part of who I am.

-- Guess I've still got a long way to go.

Anyway, happy new year to everyone.

Originally Posted by Speesh

Well that's not really the point. I think most of us are in agreement that its a big issue. But sitting in front of the computer trying to convince some guy that you're right about it isn't going to help anything. Going out into the world with authenticity and the intention to change things will.

Person said that 'environmental issues are irrelevant'. Xei said that they aren't.

Originally Posted by Xei

I think saying environmental issues are irrelevant is a little irresponsible.

It'll be a bit hard to spread the love if you're starving, or in the middle of an oil war.

Rainman can correct me if I misunderstand, but I think the point was that playing whack-a-mole with these issues out of guilt or indignation serves neither our general well-being nor the stated aims of environmentalism. We will be in a much better position to interact appropriately with our ecosystem if we have a loving, rather than fearful, consciousness.

I love you, Rainman, I really really do.

That is all.